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In mid-December, the Kansas City Regional Home Care Association recognized Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon for his initiatives in educating Missouri citizens on planning for end-of-life care. General Nixon's office has distributed more than 60,000 copies of "Life Choices," a publication written by the office that helps consumers document what choices they would make at the end of their lives if they are unable to speak for themselves. The association presented General Nixon with its annual Noni McCall Award.
Legislative Developments
There has been concern expressed by advocates for nursing home patients about New Hampshire's new template for living wills. The new form includes an optional clause that reads, "Even if I am incapacitated and I object to treatment, treatment may be given to me against my objection." The state's long-term-care ombudsman is concerned that some elders might inadvertently sign away their right to speak up and that nursing homes might use the clause to ignore residents' opinions on nonmedical matters.
Judicial Developments
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the conviction of Ronald McIver, D.O., on unlawful distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death and conspiracy to unlawfully distribute a controlled substance. United States v. Ronald McIver, No. 05-4884 (Dec. 5, 2006).
A case in Boston, Massachusetts, illustrates the difficulty hospitals and families confront when religious beliefs and customs conflict with medical judgment and state law. Cho Fook Cheng suffered cardiac arrest after Thanksgiving. Doctors pronounced him brain-dead and said he should be taken off the ventilators and intravenous medications that were keeping his organs functioning. Massachusetts law considers a person dead when brain function ceases. However, the Cheng family practice a form of Buddhism called Jing-Tao-Chung that teaches a person is not considered dead until the heart stops beating. The family sought an injunction requiring the hospital to continue to treat Cheng but reluctantly agreed to let his supply of medicines run out. After Cheng's death, a Family and Probate Court judge ruled the case was moot, but the family has vowed to continue to pursue its case.
An Italian judge refused the request of Piergiorgio Welby to allow a doctor to remove him from his respirator. Welby suffered from muscular dystrophy. During his illness, he became an active proponent of euthanasia. The court recognized Welby's right to end medical treatment but would not allow a doctor to participate. Ignoring the court's decision, an Italian anesthesiologist went to Welby's home, gave him an intravenous cocktail of sedatives, and removed the respirator. Welby died forty minutes later.
A British judge held that a nursing home may withdraw life-sustaining treatment for a 53-year old woman in a permanent vegetative state. Prior to authorizing the withdrawal, the court ordered that a three-day trial of zolpidem be attempted. Zolpidem has been shown to occasionally "wake up" patients for a short time each day. When the trial treatment yielded no positive results, the court authorized removal of treatment.
Pain Management
The upcoming January 2007 issue of Health Psychology will carry an article reporting the research conducted by Robert Kerns, chief of the psychology service at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, and his colleagues. The study found that psychological intervention, such as cognitive behavior therapy, was effective in reducing pain in people with chronic lower back pain.
The End-of-Life Updates have recently noted several articles in journals that discussed the efficacy of multi-disciplinary approaches to treating pain. Another such article appeared in the November 2006 issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management written by Wen Ling Peng, M.D., and his colleagues at the Koo Foundation in Taipei, Taiwan. The researchers concluded that the application of a multidisciplinary approach to pain management was effective in controlling the pain for most patients with advanced cancer. The December issue of the journal published the findings of a new study that suggest that effective opioid use poses little risk of hastened death among dying patients.
The Pain and Policy Study Group has announced that its website now offers country profiles that provide standardized information about opioid availability and key policy-related indicators for every country in the world.
In late November, at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America held in Chicago, Jurgen, Lutz, M.D., of Munich, Germany, presented the results of a study he and his team undertook. The researchers used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to track the movement of water molecules in patients' brains. They found that individuals suffering from chronic low back pain had microstructural changes in their brains. The research suggests that chronic pain might be objectively demonstrated through DTI.
The December 14 issue of Nature included an article reporting the results of a study that focused on six individuals living in northern Pakistan that do not feel pain. The British-led research discovered that a mutated gene blocked sodium ions from passing through cellular membranes. Although these individuals do not feel pain, they perceive touch, warmth and cold, pressure, and other sensations. The discovery has the potential to lead to a new focus for developing pain medications.
An article on new technologies offer long-term alternatives to managing chronic pain was published on-line on Herald-dispatch.com. The article noted that one new procedure being used at St Mary's Medical Center in Huntington, West Virginia, is spinal cord stimulation.
Prescription Drug Diversion
The December 6, 2006, issue of the Orlando Sentinel published an op-ed by Karen Tandy, Administrator of U.S. DEA. In it, she highlighted the case against Dr. Freddie Williams and noted the proposed regulations announced in September.
The Brigham Young University NewsNet website featured an article on OxyContin abuse. Although Utah's abuse rate is low compared to other states, police statistics show that the abuse rate is growing, along with reported robberies from patients and pharmacists. An article in Florida's Sun Sentinel in early December, as reported by the Los Angeles Times, opined that, because Florida lacks a system for tracking prescription drugs, it has become a haven for addicts and "pill mills."
Other Developments of Interest
The December 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association carried a comment regarding the article that appeared in an earlier issue by Kenneth S. Boockvar and Diane E. Meier titled "Palliative Care for Frail Older Adults." The same issue has an article discussing end-of-life care for homeless patients.
Pope Benedict XVI's message to be given on February 11, the World Day of the Sick, will include an appeal for the promotion of palliative care for terminal patients. In his message, the Pope wrote: "The Church wishes to support the incurably and terminally ill by calling for just social policies which can help to eliminate the causes of many diseases and by urging improved care for the dying and those for whom no medical remedy is available."
The request by a Florida hospice to partner with a funeral home to offer burial and cremation services for patients has sparked a controversy in the hospice and palliative care community.
The question of when and how treatment should be withdrawn in the emergency room was addressed in an article in the December issue of the Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
The Center to Advance Palliative Care issued a press release in early December that disclosed its analysis of the latest date released in the 2006 American Hospital Association Annual Survey of Hospitals. The analysis shows that there has been a five-year increase of 96% of the number of hospitals nationwide that provide palliative care programs.
In December, several newspapers reported that implantable defibrillators can interfere with a peaceful death. The article in the Washington Post noted that these devices, although saving the lives of many, can cause painful jolts and prolong suffering in the dying. Some doctors are reluctant to deactivate the implants, feeling that this would be tantamount to active intervention leading to a patient's death.


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It is very difficult to catch hold of non-existence. Existence is of course visible to us. Hence, according to yoga, those who accept only existence - those who believe that existence is all - are seeing only leela, the play of life. And to know only the play is ignorance.
Ignorance does not mean that one does not know; ignorance means that one knows only the play. Knowing as such is there; even if one knows that he does not know, then too the knowing is there. So knowing is in all of us. And ignorance doesn't mean "not knowing." The most ignorant of all beings also knows some things. According to yoga, the meaning of ignorance is to know only half. And remember, the half-truth is worse than untruth - because it is possible to be free from untruth, but to be free from the half-truth is very difficult. It appears to be the truth and it is not. If it is wholly the untruth, purely the untruth, then it won't take any time to be free from it. But if it is a half-truth it is very difficult to be free from it.
There is one more reason that a thing like truth cannot be divided into halves - because in dividing it into halves, it dies. Can you divide your love in half? Can you say, "I half love you" to somebody? Either you love or you don't love, but half-love is not possible. Can you say "I half steal"? Maybe you steal half a dollar, but the stealing of half a dollar is also full stealing, and the stealing of a million dollars is also full stealing.so is the stealing of half a cent. Half-stealing cannot be done. Half of a thing can be stolen but the stealing itself cannot be half. The very meaning of "half" is that you are in illusion.
Yoga says that those who see only existence are grasping only half. And he who grasps only the half lives in illusion, lives in ignorance. No, the other side is also there. A man who says, "I am born but I don't want to die," is clinging to the half. He will suffer; he will live in ignorance. And no matter what he may do, death is bound to come - because the other half cannot be parted with. If you have accepted birth, death is the other half of it, it comes together with it. A man who says, "I will choose only the pleasures, not the pains," is falling into a fallacy.
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Lexar, based in Fremont, Calif., plans to include in its JumpDrive line Google Picasa, Toolbar and Desktop Search applications. Picasa provides the ability to find, edit and share photos; the Toolbar offers easy access to Google Web search from a browser; and Desktop Search is for finding files in a PC's hard drive.
The Lexar flash drives, which contain no moving parts and plug into a PC's USB port, can hold as much as 2 gigabytes of data and are about the size of a stick of gum.
Vendors have been shipping applications with flash drives for a while. Lexar, for example, offers security software with some of its devices.
But the Google applications represent a step toward the larger "vision" of making flash drives a storage device for people's software, as well as data, Steffen Hellmold, vice president of product at Lexar, said.
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Heyo, Very pleased with how the lite Graff turned out (I brewed with about an 8-to-1 cider-to-wort ratio instead of the 4-or-5-to-1 suggested in the recipe, mostly because of faulty math-on-the-fly). I still have a carboy full of straight cider lurking in the basement, and was wondering if anyone had tried brewing up a batch of graff wort and blending it with straight cider after the fact to make a Graff, instead of fermenting the wort and juice together. The one concern I can think of is that most of the yeast has dropped out of the cider, and there might not be enough yeast per volume to bottle-carb with if all the yeast is to come from the beer side of the equation. Anyone have experience or theoretical observations to make?
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Love urges Republicans to stick together and stop 'eating each other'
LOVE: Look, I think we need to have a debate. I don't like the fact that Republicans are eating each other. If you think about this, Democrats tend to, tend to stick together based on one issue. And we tend to divide based on many different issues.
Dowd likens the Catholic Church's problems to the Republican Party
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Where: Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino
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Where: Venetian Hotel and Casino
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Canandaigua, N.Y. The crash involving Tony Stewart Saturday night wasnt the first time for the race car superstar at Canandaigua Motorsports Park.
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So they can't settle on a decent healthcare system for us, but when it comes to spying on us... push it right through!
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Penguinisto, he mentioned Outlook 11 times in his last 3 paragraphs.
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Jan 10: Thousands of SCADA Devices Discovered on the Open Internet
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> Where shall we all go, then?
'Tis truth. But... who shall bell the cat?
Ever since Taco left, I find that I've been patching together select RSS feeds from other sites for my nerd news fix. But RSS lacks one thing: Slashdot commenters, for better or for worse.
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I feel like, somehow, the editors lost a lot of technical savvy in the last year and are now incapable of properly judging submissions. Or have we hemorrhaged so many good submitters that this is the best they've got to pick from?
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I started working on an embedded project (hobby, not work) that needed something beefier than an Arduino. Took my time looking at what's out there: various ARM dev boards, the Raspi (with its proprietary Broadcom chip) and one or two other "embeddable" platforms.
Last week, I was working out how to interface to a display (and the grinding that would entail). The same day, Slashdot ran the "hardware is dead" article. So, I took a chance and ordered a generic 7" tablet. They aren't kidding - these things are under $60 shipped. That's like 2 days' parking in downtown SF.
It uses the Allwinner A13 SoC (ARM core, integrated 10/100 ethernet, GPL'd kernel sources). Runs Android 4 out of the box, but Debian will also run. I can just hang an Arduino off the USB bus for my custom I/O, and code up a touch-based interface. Shoot, looks like it'll be easier to develop for than the Raspi.
I'm all for hackery for hackery's sake, but now that it's "the future," I'm glad we don't have to lift ourselves up by the bootstraps in order to do every little thing. It lets me concentrate on hackery at the macro level.
If it was my arm, first, the steampunk. (171 comments)
Doesn't this sound a bit drastic? Damn, if it were me I'd be hax0ring it.
There's groups on places like the Open Prosthetic Project, who could design something for a use case like this. Probably for less than the cost of a "replacement."
Why remove her hand, when you could support it with a rigid exoskeleton? Minimalist carbon fiber spars and rings (a ring around each knuckle), very light but strong, and little external actuators that sit in the wrist / forearm. Nylon worm gear and a little 12V DC motor for each digit. Run back to an Arduino or similar and pull input from the last-known-good nerves around the base of the arm. Basically support the (numb) arm in position and have the exoskeleton move it around. Lock the wrist in the first iteration as you refine the design. Lots of little vacuum actuated suckers that keep the whole shebang stuck to the skin (creepy, but secure!)
A hundred bucks of carbon fiber, maybe a couple thousand bucks of really good fasteners and electronics, tubing, motors, pump, rubber and CNC work. $10,000 a month (for 3-6 months, depending) to a hacker who knows what he's doing.
Just sayin'.
I had to 'shop it (372 comments)
It's not a great likeness, but the imagery, oh the imagery! http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/338/ballmerbeanie.jpg/
Yes, it would indeed be terrifying (258 comments)
After watching this simulation of a computerized intersection, I would say that the situation at the street level would mean the end of airbags in cars, and the introduction of anti-pants-shitting technology for the passengers.
The group's videos page with their approach and statistics is quite good as well.
Re:PPC vs Intel suspend/resume (453 comments)
I suspect the non-standard, weirdly-driver'ed power controller is the only reason you're getting good sleep performance out of Windows. It's good to know Toshiba's putting in the effort to make that aspect of Windows nice. I've always had rotten luck with Windows sleep, so I'm one of those people that walks around with their laptop lid open.
Even with my latest Core i7 unibody, it's slow to sleep/wake. A little faster, but a PowerBook it ain't. Was just working on an old 1.66GHz PowerBook, and marveled at how fast that old beast did this.
PPC vs Intel suspend/resume (453 comments)
Clevenger, is it just me, or did the PPC Macs have better sleep/wake capability than the Intel Macs?
Used to be that when you closed the lid on an (aluminum) PowerBook, it'd go to sleep within one second flat. Same when opening the lid. On every Intel MBP I've used, including the 5 or 6 I've owned, when I close the lid, they whir and beep and bloop for almost 10 seconds - sometimes more - before going to sleep. On wake, it's usually faster than that, but typically is around 3 seconds to get a proper image. I've also seen waaaaay more "phantom sleep/wake" issues with the Intels, where a machine refuses to come out of sleep, etc. My hunch is it's something to do with re-purposed Intel hardware as opposed to purpose-built PPC hardware, EFI notwithstanding. Or, could be the "shadow hibernation" function saving to disk, which the GP was talking about.
Eh. Still smokes any PC I've used, though!
Re:Pandora (194 comments)
Happened to me, too. You can change your Pandora password 'til the cows come home, and the old phone will still be able to login!
Best part is, Pandora keeps their UDID databases inaccessible from your account, so you can't just login to Pandora and see the device(s) associated with that account. You have to email Customer Service and ask them to delete all your devices, whatever those may be. Happens on their (paid) desktop client, too. I put in a feature request to make our devices available in our account settings, but I'm not holding my breath.
For what it's worth, Pandora Support told me that if I chose "log out" on the Pandora iPhone client before getting rid of my old phone, it would have removed the UDID from their database. I half-believe this: more likely it's just marked it as "logged off."
Re:Software. (156 comments)
What software?
Re:Look at people who do it well (421 comments)
Personally, I would not give them "snacks," as that will make them fat. The handsome room's aesthetics will be spoiled by a bunch of fatasses at the desks. Providing exercise equipment will not help, as they won't use it and instead will eat the snacks. Think dogs: 3 meals a day is recommended; any more (by way of snacks) leads to fatassery, especially as snacks require no preparation.
Fatness rant over. I'd also think about the following:
- acoustics, so as to provide for a less-tiresome work environment. Should be pretty quiet all the time, no humming from machines, etc.
- lighting, assuming reflective displays and 2-3 generations of displays being swapped out over the lifetime of the NOC.
- height of "pods." Do you want their heads to be visible to each other? Just eyes? Nothing (traditional cubicles)? I'd recommend their heads or eyes be visible to each other, as traditional cubicles tend to lead to less interaction and more fucking around.
- level of built-in-idness. That's not a word but let me clarify. Do you want über-fancy, mission-control stuff with flush-mounted displays and consoles, or something a little like a more traditional office? For upgrades and such, the latter is a better choice, but isn't as "sexy." If you need teh sexy, go with dark desks and partitions (black) with either black or aluminum hardware on the desk (Apple Cinema Display type stuff).
- cable management, and whether you'll allow personal gadgets and such on desks. Where will they plug them in?
- furniture company. You're on your own on this one, but likely you'll need to choose an office system. We use a HON open plan at work, but it's all white and very 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Personally I'd use smoked glass everywhere and completely overdo the 80s mission-control room thing. Why the hell not? The only thing that would "date" it is if you got all tacky. Speaking of 2001, check out those set designs. Still timeless. May want to hire an architect with a portfolio of stuff that you like and have them do some concepts.
We should be CELEBRATING this thing (1713 comments)
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that, y'all, collectively, are not the target audience for this thing. That said, we should be celebrating, rather than bitching. Here's why.
Raise your hands, please: those who've installed LogMeIn on their mothers' computers.
LogMeIn is a crutch, and you know it. You know damn well why you installed it, too. It's so you can support her when shit breaks every couple months, or when she can't figure something out.
The nice thing about the iPhone OS is that it's tight. My mom had never used a cell phone in her life, and figured out how to make a call with my iPhone in seconds. The OS is like an appliance, reliability-wise. The target audience is users, not the nerd herd, and the interface reflects that. It's basically a $500 ticket to never having to support Mother again (or really any user that "just needs the basics").
If you really think it's just a big iPhone, look at the iPad interface video (from about 1:00 - 3:00). It was the first time I actually was like, holy shit, it looks like one of those futuristic computers out of a Hollywood movie; except it actually makes logical sense, yet retains teh bling. Unlike every other OS, multitouch is "baked in" to the iPhone OS, and you can really see the level of refinement in that video. All that shit that Microsoft wishes it could do with multitouch, this thing actually does.
No, it doesn't have multitasking or an OLED display or a webcam or a fucking JTAG header; those people can vote with their ducats and get an HP Slate. Have fun troubleshooting your wireless network in Windows 7 or GNOME using your fingertips. Ugh.
But for the price... (128 comments)
OK, I actually R'd the FA - you know, the text part of it - and feel like I should amend my comment. Basically they made a hybrid Honda Cub-ish-looking bike for $900. Though hideous, that's pretty sweet!
To non-moto people: in a nutshell, the Cub is sort of the VW Bug of Asia, except it's unnaturally reliable. (Skip to 5:00 for the dropping-it-off-a-building part.)
Whoa! (128 comments)
Holy hell, that is ugly. Designers musta said, "we need to take a Honda Ruckus, slap a dirt-bike front end on it, and put an ammo box filled with batteries in the middle." Only thing missing is the duct tape!
The sweet stink of rebranding! (364 comments)
For me, at least, "rebranding" has always had a certain stink of failure about it. (I like KDE, BTW, so don't lose your fucking minds.)
How did you feel while the respective companies were doing this? Is there anyone in the room that remembers reading the headline, "Palm splits into PalmSource and PalmOne," and thought, "Man, that's some sexy marketing right there. I need to get me a Treo but quick." No. We saw it and thought, "the shark has been jumped, the drain is being circled." Yes, you did.
While I'm on a roll, for shits and giggles, let's look at the bastard sibling of rebranding, "editions."
The moral of the story, kids, is that rebranding is for the desperate, and editions are for suckers.
Peace out.
Sony MDR-V6 (849 comments)
The thing that bugs me about Grado cans is that they're really chintzy. However, they are made in Brooklyn, which is kick-ass. I prefer the $70 Sony MDR-V6 headphones... the design is unchanged since the 80s and popular among musicians / recording studios. (It can't hurt to listen to the music on the same headphones they were edited with...) Very well-made, and have lasted me the last 6 years I've had 'em. The only downside is that they're fairly low impedance, which means if you're running them off a small device like an iPhone or iPod, you may want to use a headphone amp. But they're pretty good as-is, and if you hate 'em, people will buy them for close to what you paid.
If you can't get MDR-V6s, you can get the MDR-7506, which is basically the same thing with a gold plug. You don't really want to get anything else, though- like the V600 for example - which is designed for consumers and as such is very boomy and weird-sounding. Just use the EQ if you want bass.
Neat idea! (716 comments)
Sounds like a neat idea. It's like a little career, before your real career. Maybe this would motivate some kids that are otherwise thinking, "why should I do well in school?" Sort of a sampler as to what could happen if you work hard.
Of course, there's the cheating/collusion/milking the system angle. One would have to put in some pretty intense safeguards. Anyone clever enough to get past them, well, heck, maybe they earned it.
Been there, done that (230 comments)
Sooo... it's like Apple's iDisk, but almost 10 years later, and DRM'ed up the ass.
I am blown away. Technical tour de force, guys.
Can't wait to see your version of Spotlight- oh wait, I installed Windows Desktop Search, and uh, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.